[eli_gottlieb]

>Also, the model of cognition you are describing (information processing or I/O) is very old, from the 1960s. It was inspired by the discovery of the computer. There are other models, like Ecological Psychology, Embodied Cognition, Distributed Cognition.

False dichotomy. As far as I'm remotely up-to-date on theoretical neuroscience both information processing and embodied cognition are correct. The brain processes the interoceptive and exteroceptive information received from the body, computes first- and second-order statistics, and uses those to emit actions that explore-and-exploit the body and environment (including the environment's capacity to process information or convenient structures in the environment that don't bear memorizing).

>The only reason to center the brain/environment interface is to try to separate what you consider to be the essential identity of a person from their physical grounding. I.e. to maintain a model which includes a soul.

Sure. If you want a complete description of a person, at minimum you need their whole body, including but not limited to their brain.